Rio de Janeiro – The United Nations Information Center for Brazil (Unic Rio) has launched the Portuguese language human rights website www.dudh.org.br.
Apart from learning about historical human rights milestones, users can download the Universal Human Rights Declaration for free, among other documents.
The website highlights 20 years of achievements since the position of UN high commissioner for Human Rights was created, in 1993, and outlines the historical context in which the 1948 declaration was implemented – according to the UN, it is the most translated document in the world, into 419 different languages.
The site also provides instructions on how to report human rights violations to the UN, as well as videos and news updated on a daily basis.
The Unic Rio press office has informed that the webpage has been created because the topic is in high demand in Brazil, and there was no virtual space in which to find information, documents and news in Portuguese about human rights in Brazil and the world.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
